Glove



Oct. 13, 1964 N. J. STRAUSS GLOVE Filed Sept. 23, 1963 INVENTOR. 2 0. J7

A TTOENEY United States Patent Ofifice 3,152,338 GLOVE Nathan J.Strauss, American Astral Corp, 11 E. 36th St., New York, N.Y. FiledSept. 23, 1963, Ser. No. 310,641 3 Claims. (Cl. 2-163) This inventionrelates to a glove of the type that is known in the industry as astretch glove. As those skilled in the art will fully appreciate, manyconstructions of this class have been suggested. However, so far as Iknow, all stretch gloves have the very undesirable feature that theylook like stretch gloves, in that they combine a fabric and a leather.This combination of a fabric and a leather is not pleasing to aconsiderable section of the public, and has greatly hindered the sale ofstretch gloves.

I have now developed a stretch glove that during ordinary manipulationof the hand will not present both fabric and leather to the eye of anobserver. Thus, the stretch glove of my invention looks like anall-leather glove, and cannot be distinguished from an ordinaryallleather glove, except by examination when not on the hand, or unlessa hand bearing the glove is manipulated into an unnatural position.

In setting forth the glove of my invention, I shall indicate thepositions of the parts of the glove under the assumption that the gloveis held in a vertical plane with the finger fourchettes substantiallyhorizontal and the thumb uppermost, and with the entire glove below thelevel of the eye.

As a feature of my invention, my glove is so formed that the bottom orlower end surface thereof, which includes the bottom or lower fourchetteof the little finger stall, is formed of stretchable material. Thismakes it possible to contribute stretch to the palm portion of the gloveas well as to the little finger, without at the same time exposing thestretchable material. Similarly, the fourchette at the lower side ofeach of the remaining finger stalls is formed of stretchable material soas to permit the stretching of the finger stalls while not exposing thestretchable material to the eye of an observer.

As a further feature of the invention, the lower fourchette of a fingerstall formed of a stretchable material is sewn to the upper fourchetteof the next adjacent stall along a line between the fingers, so as tocontribute stretch at the joint.

As a still further feature of my invention, the glove, with theexception of the thumb stall and some fourchettes, is formed of onepiece of leather. Therefore, through the folding of this one piece ofleather, and the sewing thereof along a lower line to a stretchablematerial, there is formed all of the glove except the thumb stall, thelower fourchettes of the three main finger stalls, and the three upperfourchettes. I am thus able, through use of one piece of leather, inaccordance with the teachings of my invention, to contribute astretchable glove that will have all of the desirable qualities of astretchable glove with the very pleasing appearance of an allleatherglove.

1 have thus outlined rather broadly the more important features of myinvention in order that the detailed description thereof that followsmay be better understood, and in order that my contribution to the artmay be better appreciated. There are, of course, additional features ofmy invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form thesubject of the claims appended hereto. Those skilled in the art willappreciate that the conception on which my disclosure is based mayreadily be utilized as a basis for the designing of other structures forcarrying out the several purposes of my invention.

It is important, therefore, that the claims be regarded as includingsuch equivalent constructions as do not depart from the spirit and scopeof my invention, in order to prevent the appropriation of my inventionby those skilled in the art.

Referring now to the drawings:

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing my glove when looking at it fromone side, illustrating the stretchable portions;

FIG. 2 shows the glove when looked at from the opposed side, thestretchable portions being no longer visible;

FIG. 3 shows one of the finger stalls in upstanding position and themanner in which the stretchable material forrning the lower portion ofthe stall is sewn to the upper portion of the next finger stall;

FIG. 4 is a section along line 44 of FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 shows the shape of the one piece of leather utilized to form theglove of my invention.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, reference numeralindicates the one piece of leather sed to form the preferred type ofglove of my invention. in forming the glove the part 16 is folded alongline 11, and when this is accomplished, it will be seen that the upperedge of the glove, as designated by reference numeral 11a in FIG. 2, isentirely of leather. It will also be noted that the upper portion 12a ofthe forefinger stall 12 is entirely of leather.

The edges 13 and 14 are brought together as shown in FIG. 1, and sewn toa stretchable fabric portion 15. This fabric portion 15 tapers so thatthe end of the fingertip is formed of leather only, the fabricterminating just at the tip for this purpose. Naturally, this union ofthe edges 13 and 14 completes the basic forming of the glove. Further,the particular construction will yield a very considerable stretchingpalm and main hand portion 16. Still further, the lower edge of thelittle finger stall 17 will also be stretchable. Obviously, thestretchable material 15 forming the lower fourchette of the littlefinger stall and the lower edge of the main glove body will not bevisible to the eye, as is evidenced from FIG. 2.

The construction of a further finger stall such as stall 18 or 19 isbest illustrated in FIGS. 3 and 4. Thus, the lower fourchette of thefinger stall 18 in FIG. 3 is formed of a stretchable material 20 that issewn in place as seen in FIG. 4. This will be the lower fourchette ofthe finger stall 18, as best seen in FIG. 1. It is not visible in FIG.2. The stretchable material 20 will be sewn also along the line 21 tothe leather forming the upper fourchette 22 of the little finger stall17. The upper fourchette of the stall 18 is formed of leather 23 as canbe seen in FIG. 2. The leather 23 is sewn then along the line 24 in FIG.3 to the stretchable material fourchette 25 of the next finger stall 19.At their upper ends, the fourchettes 2t and 23 taper to such a degreethat these fourchettes do not meet. Therefore, the fingertip is entirelyof leather. Of course, it is recognized that in some gloves of this typethe fourchettes are so sewn that the fingertips include portions of thefourchettes.

There is thus yielded a complete glove basically formed preferably ofone piece of leather and having stretch portions that will allow forefiective stretching of the glove. At the same time, the stretchableportions will not be visible to the eye when the glove is wornordinarily. I believe the very considerable contribution of my inventionwill be understood by those skilled in the art.

I now claim:

1. A glove comprising palm and back portions of relatively unstretchablematerial having integral coaching palm and back finger portions andproviding a thumb portion, fourchettes between certain of said palm andPatented Oct. 13, 1964 3:3 back finger portions forming finger stalls,certain of said fourchettes facing said thumb portion and adapted to bevisible when the glove is on a hand and being formed of the samematerial as said palm and back, and certain of said fourchettes adaptedto be obscured when the glove is on a hand'being directed away from saidthumb portion and being formed of a stretchable fabric material.

2. A glove comprising palm and back portions of relatively unstretchablematerial having integral coacting palm and back finger portions andproviding a thumb portion, fourchettes between certain of said palm andback finger portions forming finger stalls, certain of said fourchettesfacing said thumb portion and adapted to be visible when the glove is ona hand and being formed of the same material as said palm and back, andcertain of said fourchettes adapted to be obscured when the glove is ona hand being directed away from said thumb portion and being formed of astretchable fabric material, adjacent fourchettes being joined togetherat their bases.

3. A glove comprising palm and back portions of relatively unstretchablematerial made of an integral piece of leather and having integralcoacting palm and back finger portions and providing a thumb portion,said integral piece of leather when folded along a center line, formingat and adjacent said center line all of the forefinger outlining stallexcept a portion remote from said thumb portion, a stretchable stripsewed to both edges of said folded integral piece remote from saidcenter line forming an entire edge of the glove including the side ofthe little finger stall remote from said thumb portion, a fourchette forthe portion of the forefinger stall remote from said center line tocomplete that stall, and fourchettes for the stalls of the remainingfingers including a fourchette for the surface of the little fingerstall facing said center line, the fourchettes facing said center linebeing all formed of leather tomatch the integral palm and back, and thefourchettes directed away from said center line being formed ofstretchable material such as that used for said stretchable strip,whereby all finger stalls and one entire edge of said glove arestretchable while giving the appearance of a leather glove.

References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS 12/40 Geissman2-169 4/50 Lindfelt 2167 FOREIGN PATENTS 6/50 France.

1. A GLOVE COMPRISING PALM AND BACK PORTIONS OF RELATIVELY UNSTRETCHABLEMATERIAL HAVING INTEGRAL COACTING PALM AND BACK FINGER PORTIONS ANDPROVIDING A THUMB PORTION, FOURCHETTES BETWEEN CERTAIN OF SAID PALM ANDBACK FINGER PORTIONS FORMING FINGER STALLS, CERTAIN OF SAID FOURCHETTESFACING SAID THUMB PORTION AND ADAPTED TO BE VISIBLE WHEN THE GLOVE IS ONA HAND AND BEING FORMED OF THE SAME MATERIAL AS SAID PALM AND BACK, ANDCERTAIN OF SAID FOURCHETTES ADAPTED TO BE OBSCURED WHEN THE GLOVE IS ONA HAND BEING DIRECTED AWAY FROM SAID THUMB PORTION AND BEING FORMED OF ASTRETCHABLE FABRIC MATERIAL.